This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...a bronchus may lead to bronchiectasis and the wall of the dilated segment may be attacked by bacilli from lesions elsewhere in the lung. The bronchiectatic origin of smaller cavities can often be demonstrated, but in larger ones the process is too far advanced. These latter (Fig. 107) may be sufficiently large to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...a bronchus may lead to bronchiectasis and the wall of the dilated segment may be attacked by bacilli from lesions elsewhere in the lung. The bronchiectatic origin of smaller cavities can often be demonstrated, but in larger ones the process is too far advanced. These latter (Fig. 107) may be sufficiently large to include an entire lobe, and so complicated that the extent of their ramification often remains unsuspected until the lung has been incised in several directions. Their walls are covered in some places with a fibrinosuppurative exudate, while in others they are the seat of caseation or ulceration; a characteristic feature is the presence of festoons of tissue, which represent the remains of more resistant portions of the lung, and not infrequently contain blood-vessels. The vessels, therefore, seem longest able to resist destruction, but they finally suffer arrosion, and haemoptysis occurs in consequence unless thrombosis has taken place in the meantime. In cases coming to autopsy shortly after a hemorrhage, the cavity is full of blood; as a rule, it is not difficult to discover the affected vessel, and frequently it can be shown that an arrosion aneurism has been responsible for the rupture. If several days have elapsed, areas of lobular pneumonia can usually be demonstrated in the lower por Flo. 107.--Pulmonary tuberculosis; apical cavity and caseous bronchopneumonia (onehalf natural size), a, cavity; b and c, areas of caseous pneumonia at the base of the upper lobe; d, surface of lung betweeu upper and lower lobes, covered with fibrin. tion of the lung, their dark red color stamping them as products of the aspiration of blood. Not only by causing hemorrhage, however, do cavities influence the course of tuberculosis. Their pus contains, in additio...
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